Index
A
- Active Directory
- defining / Active Directory
- Active Directory-integrated DNS servers
- defining / Active Directory-integrated DNS servers
- All Flash configuration
- annualized failure rate (AFR)
- about / Hard drive requirements
- Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA)
- about / Dual controller storage arrays
B
- Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD)
C
- certificate installation
- URL / Prerequisites
- checklist
- monitoring / Monitoring checklist
D
- dashboard
- dashboards
- defining / vRealize Operations Manager Dashboard
- database considerations, VMware Horizon View / Database considerations for Horizon View
- dedicated pools
- defining / Dedicated pools
- HA considerations / HA considerations for dedicated pools
- DHCP
- about / DHCP
- DHCP High Availability
- about / DHCP High Availability
- Active/Backup / DHCP High Availability
- Active/Active / DHCP High Availability
- Split Scope / DHCP High Availability
- URL / DHCP High Availability
- Disable Distributed Power Management (DPM)
- about / ESXi 6.0 upgrade planning
- DNS
- configuring / Configuring DNS
- DNS load balancing
- defining / DNS load balancing
- advantages / DNS load balancing
- disadvantages / DNS load balancing
- DNS load distribution
- deploying / DNS load balancing
- DNS round robin
- URL / Configuring DNS
- defining, with internal-only clients / DNS round robin with internal-only clients
- for View security servers, with external clients / DNS round robin for View security servers with external clients
- DNS servers
- defining / DNS
- drive writes per day (DWPD)
- about / SSD requirements
- DRS
- about / Licensing Horizon View
- rules, configuring / Configuring VMware vCenter High Availability , Configuring VM startup/shutdown rules
- URL / Configuring VMware vCenter High Availability
- DRS
- rules, configuring / Configuring VMware vCenter High Availability
- DRS rule
- configuring / Four or more ESXi hosts with shared storage
- Dual controller storage arrays
- Active-Active storage system / Dual controller storage arrays
- Active-Passive storage system / Dual controller storage arrays
- Asymmetrical storage system / Dual controller storage arrays
E
- ESXi
- limitations / ESXi Fibre Channel and SAN restrictions
- ESXi 6.0
- defining / ESXi 6.0 upgrade planning
- requirements / ESXi 6.0 upgrade planning
- ESXi Fibre Channel
- and SAN restrictions / ESXi Fibre Channel and SAN restrictions
F
- failure testing
- checklist / Failure testing checklist, Failure testing checklist
- FC-PH
- about / Fibre Channel layers
- Fibre Channel
- defining / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- Host Bus Adapter (HBA) / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- Storage Processor (SP) / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- Storage Area Network (SAN) / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- Logical Unit Number (LUN) / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- path/multipath / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- Point-to-Point (FC-P2P) / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- Switched Fabric (FC-SW) / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- port attributes / Fibre Channel port attributes
- zoning / Fibre Channel zoning
- multipathing / Multipathing and managing Fibre Channel from within VMware vSphere Web Client
- managing / Multipathing and managing Fibre Channel from within VMware vSphere Web Client
- checklist / Fibre Channel checklist
- High Availability checklist / Fibre Channel High Availability checklist
- Fibre Channel Protocol (FCP)
- floating pools
- defining / Floating pools
- HA considerations / HA considerations for floating pools
- functions, vCenter server
- Power on/off/reset / Functions of the vCenter server
- VMware High Availability / Functions of the vCenter server
- VMware vMotion / Functions of the vCenter server
- about / Functions of the vCenter server
- View Composer / Functions of the vCenter server
- functions, View Composer
- refresh / Functions of the View Composer
- recompose / Functions of the View Composer
- rebalance / Functions of the View Composer
- functions, View Connection servers
- Administration Interface / Functions of the View Connection servers
- Entitlement Management / Functions of the View Connection servers
- full-cloned desktops, creating / Functions of the View Connection servers
- link-cloned desktops, creating / Functions of the View Connection servers
- Agent/Client session broker / Functions of the View Connection servers
- HTML access, viewing / Functions of the View Connection servers
- ADAM Replication / Functions of the View Connection servers
G
- GEOM
H
- hardware compatibility list
- Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)
- about / NFS
- High Availability
- and failure planning / High Availability and failure planning
- checklist / High Availability checklist, High Availability checklist
- checklist, for local storage-only clusters / High Availability checklist
- checklist, for shared storage clusters / High Availability checklist
- checklist, for RDS clusters / High Availability checklist
- planning / Planning for High Availability
- planning, with Fibre Channel switches / Planning for High Availability with Fibre Channel switches
- planning, with P2P Fibre Channel / Planning for high availability with P2P Fibre Channel
- High Availability considerations, View Composer
- High Availability deployment scenarios, vCenter
- about / High Availability deployment scenarios for vCenter
- small deployments / Small deployments
- medium-to-large deployments / Medium-to-large deployments
- shared storage deployments / Shared storage deployments
- Horizon Desktop Agent
- vRealize Operations, installing for / Installing the vRealize Operations for Horizon Desktop Agent
- Horizon View agent
- Horizon View connection server
- Horizon View Event Notifier
- Horizon View Event Viewer
- about / Horizon View Event Viewer
- host upgrade planning
- defining / Host upgrade planning
I
- iSCSI
- about / iSCSI
- hardware iSCSI adapters / iSCSI
- software iSCSI adapter / iSCSI
- defining / iSCSI concepts
- Names / iSCSI concepts
- Extended Unique Identifier (EUI) / iSCSI concepts
- Qualified Name (IQN) / iSCSI concepts
- Alias / iSCSI concepts
- IP addresses / iSCSI concepts
- initiators / iSCSI concepts
- targets / iSCSI concepts
- session / iSCSI concepts
- portal / iSCSI concepts
- Logical Unit Number (LUN) / iSCSI concepts
- URL / iSCSI High Availability
- iSCSI High Availability
- defining / iSCSI High Availability
K
- KMS licensing hosts
- URL / Licensing Horizon View
L
- layers, Fibre Channel
- defining / Fibre Channel layers
- Protocol Mapping Layer (FC4) / Fibre Channel layers
- Common Services Layer (FC3) / Fibre Channel layers
- Network Layer (FC2) / Fibre Channel layers
- Data Link Layer (FC1) / Fibre Channel layers
- Physical Layer (FC0) / Fibre Channel layers
- license key
- assigning, to Virtual SAN cluster / Assign a license key to the Virtual SAN cluster
- load balancer topologies
- references / References
- load balancing
- ports, using for / Ports used for load balancing
- Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
M
- manual pools
- defining / Manual pools
- HA considerations / HA considerations for manual pools
- MDADM
- mean time between failures (MTBF)
- about / Hard drive requirements
- methods, network failure detection
- Link Status Only / VMware vSphere ESXi
- Beacon Probing / VMware vSphere ESXi
- multipathing options
- multiple host failures
- and quorum / Multiple host failures and quorum
N
- network High Availability
- about / Network High Availability
- Network Load Balancer (NLB)
- Network services HA
- about / Network services HA
- DNS, configuring / Configuring DNS
- certificates, configuring for View Connection servers / Configuring certificates for the View Connection servers
- VMware vCenter High Availability, configuring / Configuring VMware vCenter High Availability
- VM startup/shutdown rules, configuring / Configuring VM startup/shutdown rules
- network upgrade planning
- defining / Network upgrade planning
- NFS
- about / NFS
- third-party features / NFS third-party features
- deduplication / Deduplication
- backups / Backups and snapshots on NFS
- snapshots / Backups and snapshots on NFS
- NFS best practices
- URL / NFS High Availability
- NFS High Availability / NFS High Availability
- NFSv3
- network requirements / NFS
- node ports
- defining / Node ports
- N_port / Node ports
- NL_port / Node ports
- F_port / Node ports
- FL_port / Node ports
- E_port / Node ports
- B_port / Node ports
- D_port / Node ports
- EX_port / Node ports
- TE_port / Node ports
- auto or auto-sensing port / Node ports
- N_port ID Virtualization (NPIV)
- about / Fibre Channel port attributes
O
- options, VMware vSphere ESXi
- defining / VMware vSphere ESXi
- Oracle databases
- licensing, URL / Licensing Horizon View
P
- PCoIP Session Statistics Viewer
- Point-to-Point (FC-P2P) / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- pools
- defining / An overview of pools
- stateless desktops / Stateless desktops
- stateful desktops / Stateful desktops
- port attributes, Fibre Channel
- World Wide Port Name (WWPN) / Fibre Channel port attributes
- Port_ID (or port address) / Fibre Channel port attributes
- ports
- used, for load balancing / Ports used for load balancing
- ports, Fibre Channel
- defining / Fibre Channel ports
- node ports, defining / Node ports
- ports, load balancing
- TCP Port 80 (HTTP) / Ports used for load balancing
- TCP Port 443 (HTTPS) / Ports used for load balancing
- TCP/UDP Port 4172 (PCoIP) / Ports used for load balancing
- TCP Port 8443 (HTTPS/Blast) / Ports used for load balancing
- TCP Port 32111 (USB Redirection) / Ports used for load balancing
R
- RDS failover
- Remote Desktop Services (RDS)
- servers, running on dedicated server / Remote desktop services pool HA considerations
- redundant power supplies / Remote desktop services pool HA considerations
- uninterrupted power supply / Remote desktop services pool HA considerations
- redundant network interfaces / Remote desktop services pool HA considerations
- mirrored or redundant disks / Remote desktop services pool HA considerations
- two or more hosts / Remote desktop services pool HA considerations
- Remote Desktop Services (RDS) pools
- defining / Remote Desktop Services pools
- HA considerations / Remote desktop services pool HA considerations
- options, defining / Remote desktop services pool HA considerations
- RVTools
S
- SAN restrictions
- and ESXi Fibre Channel / ESXi Fibre Channel and SAN restrictions
- shared strategies
- for VMs and hardware / Remote desktop services pool HA considerations
- software or hardware load balancing
- about / Software or hardware load balancing
- advantages / Software or hardware load balancing
- disadvantages / Software or hardware load balancing
- scenarios, defining / Scenarios in software or hardware load balancing
- for View security servers, with external clients / Software or hardware load balancers for View security servers with external clients
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- stateful desktops
- about / Stateful desktops
- using / Stateful desktops
- stateless desktops
- about / Stateless desktops
- task workers / Stateless desktops
- Kiosk users / Stateless desktops
- storage arrays, Fibre Channel
- defining / Fibre Channel storage arrays
- single controller storage arrays / Single controller storage arrays
- dual controller storage arrays / Dual controller storage arrays
- storage High Availability
- defining / Storage High Availability
- storage policies
- defining, for VMware Horizon View / Storage policies for VMware Horizon View
- storage upgrade planning
- defining / Storage upgrade planning
- Switched Fabric (FC-SW) / Fibre Channel concepts and definitions
- switching, Network High Availability
- defining / Switching
T
- TCP offload engine (TOE)
- about / iSCSI
- tools
- monitoring / Monitoring tools available
- Horizon View Event Viewer / Horizon View Event Viewer
- RVTools / RVTools
- PCoIP Session Statistics Viewer / PCoIP Session Statistics Viewer
- vRealize Operations Manager, for Horizon View / vRealize Operations Manager for Horizon View
V
- vCenter
- High Availability deployment scenarios / High Availability deployment scenarios for vCenter
- URL / VMware vCenter Server 6.0 for Windows
- upgrading / VMware vCenter Server 6.0 for Windows
- vCenter considerations
- used, for co-locating View Composer / Co-locating the View Composer with vCenter considerations
- vCenter server
- functions / Functions of the vCenter server
- vCenter upgrade
- references / Prerequisites and common pitfalls
- vCenter upgrade best practices
- references / VMware vCenter Server 6.0 for Windows
- View Client downloads
- View Composer
- functions / Functions of the View Composer
- High Availability considerations / High Availability considerations for View Composer
- co-locating, with vCenter considerations / Co-locating the View Composer with vCenter considerations
- upgrading / View Composer 6.0
- URL / View Composer 6.0
- View Composer 6.0
- installation / Installation of the View Composer 6.0
- about / View Composer 6.0
- requirements / View Composer 6.0
- View Connection Server
- View Connection server
- URL / Prerequisites
- View connection server
- monitoring / Monitoring the View connection servers
- View Event database, defining / View Event database
- View Connection Server 6.0
- installation / Installation of View Connection Server 6.0
- about / View Connection Server 6.0
- View Connection Server 6.0 installation
- prerequisites / Installation of View Connection Server 6.0
- View Standard server, installing / Installing the View Standard server
- View Replica Server, installing / Installing the View Replica Server
- View Connection servers, installing / Configuring the View Connection servers
- View Connection servers
- functions / Functions of the View Connection servers
- configuring / Configuring the View Connection servers
- certificates, configuring for / Configuring certificates for the View Connection servers
- View Connection Servers
- requirements / View Connection Server 6.0
- View Replica Server
- installing / Installing the View Replica Server
- View Security server
- functions / Functions of the View Security server
- HTTP to HTTPS redirect / Functions of the View Security server
- HTTPS/Horizon View web page / Functions of the View Security server
- HTML Access / Functions of the View Security server
- IPsec Encryption / Functions of the View Security server
- PCoIP and USB Redirection / Functions of the View Security server
- security / Functions of the View Security server
- URL / Functions of the View Security server
- firewall / Firewall and DNS requirements of the View Security server
- DNS requirements / Firewall and DNS requirements of the View Security server
- High Availability, defining for / High Availability planning for the View Security server
- installing / Installing the View Security server, Installation
- prerequisites / Prerequisites
- HA DRS / HA DRS and power
- power / HA DRS and power
- two or more ESXi hosts, with shared storage / Two or more ESXi hosts with shared storage
- four or more ESXi hosts, with shared storage / Four or more ESXi hosts with shared storage
- two or more ESXi hosts, with local storage / Two or more ESXi hosts with local storage
- four or more ESXi hosts, with local storage / Four or more ESXi hosts with local storage
- power, configuring / Power on
- failure checklist / View Security server failure checklist
- View Standard server
- installing / Installing the View Standard server
- Virtual SAN
- capabilities, defining / Virtual SAN capabilities and characteristics
- characteristics / Virtual SAN capabilities and characteristics
- Cache layer / Virtual SAN capabilities and characteristics
- Capacity layer / Virtual SAN capabilities and characteristics
- URL / Virtual SAN for VMware Horizon View
- cache mechanics / Virtual SAN cache mechanics
- requirements / Virtual SAN requirements and limitations
- limitations / Virtual SAN requirements and limitations
- requirements, for hybrid configurations / Virtual SAN requirements and limitations
- requirements, for All Flash configurations / Virtual SAN requirements and limitations
- sizing / Virtual SAN sizing
- CPU requirements / CPU requirements
- SSD requirements / SSD requirements
- hard drive requirements / Hard drive requirements
- network requirements / Network requirements
- Blade servers / Blade servers
- Rack servers / Rack servers
- installing / Virtual SAN installation
- drive, adding into / Add a drive into a Virtual SAN
- drive, removing / Remove a drive from a Virtual SAN
- features / Virtual SAN features and best practices
- best practices / Virtual SAN features and best practices
- hardware best practices / Virtual SAN hardware best practices
- maintenance mode / Virtual SAN maintenance mode
- storage policy management / Virtual SAN storage policy management
- admission control / Admission control
- Virtual SAN, for VMware Horizon View
- defining / Virtual SAN for VMware Horizon View
- URL / Virtual SAN for VMware Horizon View
- components / Components
- Virtual SAN cluster
- license key, assigning to / Assign a license key to the Virtual SAN cluster
- prerequisites / Assign a license key to the Virtual SAN cluster
- procedure / Assign a license key to the Virtual SAN cluster
- Virtual SAN Cluster, with 64 hosts
- Virtual SAN constructs
- about / Virtual SAN capabilities and characteristics
- disk groups / Virtual SAN capabilities and characteristics
- datastore / Virtual SAN capabilities and characteristics
- objects / Virtual SAN capabilities and characteristics
- components / Virtual SAN capabilities and characteristics
- network / Virtual SAN capabilities and characteristics
- Virtual SAN sizing tool
- URL / Rack servers
- Virtual SAN storage policies
- attributes / Virtual SAN storage policy management
- setting up / Virtual SAN storage policy management
- VMFS
- and Fibre Channel workflow / VMFS and Fibre Channel workflow
- VMkernel
- about / VMFS and Fibre Channel workflow
- VMkernel configuration
- defining / VMkernel configuration
- vMotion
- about / Single controller storage arrays
- VM startup/shutdown rules
- configuring / Configuring VM startup/shutdown rules
- VMware documentation
- VMware Documentation Center
- requirements, URL / Installation of View Connection Server 6.0
- VMware ESXi upgrade process
- references / ESXi 6.0 upgrade planning
- VMware hardware compatibility guide
- VMware hardware compatibility list
- URL / Host upgrade planning
- VMware Hardware Compatibility List
- VMware Horizon View
- licensing / Licensing Horizon View
- license, URL / Licensing Horizon View
- database considerations / Database considerations for Horizon View
- URL / Installation of the View Composer 6.0
- storage policies, defining for / Storage policies for VMware Horizon View
- prerequisites / Prerequisites and common pitfalls
- common pitfalls / Prerequisites and common pitfalls
- VMware Horizon View 6.0 upgrades guide
- references / Prerequisites and common pitfalls
- VMware Horizon View agent
- VMware Horizon View environments, with load balancers
- URL / References
- VMware KB article
- URL / NFS
- VMware load balancing
- URL / VMware vSphere ESXi
- VMware product interoperability
- VMware Product Interoperability Matrix
- VMware Tools
- VMware Update Manager
- defining / VMware Update Manager
- VMware vCenter 6.0
- requirements / VMware vCenter Server 6.0 for Windows
- VMware vCenter High Availability
- configuring / Configuring VMware vCenter High Availability
- VMware vCenter server
- monitoring / Monitoring the VMware vCenter server
- VMware vCenter Server 6.0
- defining, for Windows / VMware vCenter Server 6.0 for Windows
- VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Appliance
- defining / VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Appliance
- references / VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Appliance
- VMware vRealize Operations View Broker Agent
- VMware vSphere ESXi
- defining / VMware vSphere ESXi
- for vSwitches / VMware vSphere ESXi
- for distributed switches / VMware vSphere ESXi
- VMware vSphere monitoring
- vRealize Operations
- installing, for Horizon Desktop Agent / Installing the vRealize Operations for Horizon Desktop Agent
- URL / Installing the vRealize Operations for Horizon Desktop Agent
- vRealize Operations Manager
- vRealize Operations Manager, for Horizon View
- vRealize Operations Manager Dashboard
- defining / vRealize Operations Manager Dashboard
- vRealize Operations Manager Virtual Appliance
- configuring / vRealize Operations Manager Configuration
- vSphere editions
- URL / Licensing Horizon View
W
- Windows DFS
- Windows load balancer
- deploying / Windows Network Load Balancing
- Windows load balancing
- defining, with internal-only clients / Windows load balancing with internal-only clients
- for View security servers, with external clients / Windows load balancing for View security servers with external clients
- Windows Network Load Balancing
- about / Windows Network Load Balancing
- advantages / Windows Network Load Balancing
- disadvantages / Windows Network Load Balancing
- Windows Server Failover Cluster (WSFC)
- about / DHCP High Availability
Z
- zoning
- about / Fibre Channel zoning
- single initiator zoning / Fibre Channel zoning
- target initiator zoning / Fibre Channel zoning